No more *ist-D??

Park Cameras has the *ist D listed again!
Andy

Are you sure? I couldn't see it.

G

Yes! At bottom of Pentax section of the Digital Cameras, it has the body listed at £599.99 with a link to various money saving packages etc
Andy

You're absolutely right. It's well hidden, but here's the link:

http://www.parkcameras.com/pentax/digitalcameras/istd.htm#prices

G

George,
I was wanting to paste that link direct to the right page, but my browser wasn't showing anything other than the home page address - any clues why?
Andy

It's a separate frame within the page. I use Opera, and I don't know whether Internet Explorer will allow you to load a frame separately. If it does, you'll then see the URL of the frame. If not, download Opera!

Opera has the world's best email program, incidentally. (IMHO!)

G

Hi,
I suppose that's progress for you. They were all sorts of similiar tales about lack of features when the MZ-S replaced the Z1P. I rather suspect that it comes down to market forces and what they think the "average" user will need and cut out the rest to keep costs down. I do think that modern society places less importance on quality and more on cost than it did a few years ago.

Kim

Kim,

Manufactured goods have dropped enormously in price over the years. If I were paying £500 for a DVD player I would be concerned about quality, and would want lots of features.

But as I paid less than £30.00 at Tesco, I wasn't too concerned about either.

When things don't cost much, our expectations are correspondingly low.

G